Copying files over a network

[Rick]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:17 PM, C M Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> On Mon 22 December 2008 12:34, Rick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have an old mail/web/ftp server based on SME Server. I want to build a
> > new server and will need to copy all my email accounts from the old
> server
> > to the new server.
> >
> > The old server is OLD, and does not support USB. I'm sure there is a way
> to
> > copy files/directories over the network but don't know the proper
> > command(s). I'd like to do something like cp -R but between two servers.
> Is
> > this possible?
>
> Well, if the old server is running ftp, then that's probably the easiest
> way
> to transfer your files. Update your ftp configuration to allow you to log
> in
> from your new server. Archive your files with tar and copy them into the
> ftp
> directory where you can grab (get) them from the new server.


Thanks, CMR. That was my first thought. But I don't have enough space on my
old server for the tarball.  So I need to copy the files. rsync seems to
work, so far.

>
> > Also, what linux distribution is favored these days? OpenSUSE, Gentoo,
> > Fedora?
>
> Debian, of course! ;-)
>
> HTH!
>
> cmr
>
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